Essay Archive - Pygmalion: Professor Higgins' Philosophy
Pygmalion: Professor Higgins' Philosophy
Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man.
While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he
is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important,
as long as you treat everyone equally.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or
any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human
souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-
class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. -Higgins, Act V Pygmalion.....
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